If we apply the Google-ranking approach to universities in France, what will we discover? A clean browser is essential, as always, so that our own account settings and preferences won’t influence the result. And we can search google.fr either on the French word université or the English word university.

The French-language search gives us these results (after a little advanced bio-neural filtering is applied):

The lack of overlap between these two listings suggests that the Francophone and Anglophone (or Anglo-friendly) education sectors in France are quite distinct. I don’t believe any of the other countries examined so far have had this much divergence between their local-language university rankings and their English-language rankings.

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